{"id":128785,"date":"2025-09-03T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:47:09","slug":"official-napoli-exclude-two-from-champions-league-squad-as-hojlund-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128785\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Napoli exclude two from Champions League squad as Hojlund registered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/official-napoli-champions-league-25-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Antonio-Conte-Napoli-point.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-911677\" alt=\"NAPLES, ITALY - AUGUST 30: Antonio Conte, SSC Napoli head coach, reacts during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Cagliari Calcio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on August 30, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NAPLES, ITALY &#8211; AUGUST 30: Antonio Conte, SSC Napoli head coach, reacts during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Cagliari Calcio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on August 30, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Napoli have named their squad for this season\u2019s UEFA Champions League, with new striker Rasmus Hojlund registered and Romelu Lukaku excluded due to his injury.<\/p>\n<p>New signings Lorenzo Lucca, Noa Lang, Eljif Elmas, Kevin De Bruyne, Miguel Gutierrez and Sam Beukema have also all been named in the squad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/12450418-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-825473 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"Pasquale Mazzocchi and Napoli players react after their loss in the Italian Serie A soccer match Hellas Verona vs Napoli at the Marcantonio Bentegodi stadium in Verona under Antonio Conte, Italy, 18 August 2024. EPA-EFE\/FILIPPO VENEZIA\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>Napoli players react after their loss in the Italian Serie A soccer match at the Marcantonio Bentegodi stadium in Verona, Italy, 18 August 2024. EPA-EFE\/FILIPPO VENEZIA<\/p>\n<p>Luca Marianucci, who signed for the Neapolitan side for \u20ac9 million from Empoli in July, is absent from the squad, alongside wing-back Pasquale Mazzocchi, who have both been left out due to technical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli name official Champions League squad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.areanapoli.it\/coppe\/napoli-lista-champions-2025-2026_605211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Champions League squad<\/a>: Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, Sam Beukema, Juan Jesus, Mathias Olivera, Amir Rrahmani, Miguel Gutierrez, Leonardo Spinazzola, Kevin De Bruyne, Billy Gilmour, Stanislav Lobotka, Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Scott McTominay, Eljif Elmas, David Neres, Noa Lang, Rasmus Hojlund, Lorenzo Lucca, Alex Meret, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Alessandro Buongiorno, Matteo Politano.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-De-Bruyne-Napoli.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-911697 size-medium\" alt=\"NAPLES, ITALY - AUGUST 30: Kevin De Bruyne of SSC Napoli during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Cagliari Calcio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on August 30, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>NAPLES, ITALY \u2013 AUGUST 30: Kevin De Bruyne during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and Cagliari Calcio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on August 30, 2025 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Napoli will be looking to mark their return to the Champions League emphatically, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/napoli-set-record-wage-bill-delaurentiis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after making a host of strong signings in the summer market<\/a> after their Scudetto success last season.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAPLES, ITALY &#8211; AUGUST 30: Antonio Conte, SSC Napoli head coach, reacts during the Serie A match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-128785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}